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Visual Learning Systems
Roles in Ecosystems
The video explains the different types of living things found in ecosystems, including plants, animals, and decomposers. The video provides examples of each type of organism and their role in the ecosystem.
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US Department of Agriculture
USDA Assists Socially Disadvantaged Farmers
The USDA's Strike Force Initiative is looking to help farmers and ranchers who may have been under served with financial and technical assistance in the past.
Visual Learning Systems
Energy in Ecosystems
The video discusses the concept of energy flow in an ecosystem, highlighting the complex relationships between producers, consumers, and decomposers. A simplified diagram of a forest ecosystem is shown, illustrating the...
Visual Learning Systems
Ecosystems Quiz
This is a quiz on the topics covered in the Ecosystems series. Viewers are asked to fill in the correct word to complete a sentence related to the topic. The sentences cover concepts such as the study of living things in the environment,...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Ecosystems
The video explores the different environments on Earth. The video also introduces the concept of an organism's environment, which includes all living and nonliving things it interacts with. Ecosystems part 1/8
Scholastic
Study Jams! Ecosystems
With the forest as an example, Sam and Zoe talk about the components biotic and abiotic of an ecosystem. They also discuss the role of producers, consumers, and decomposers. This concise clip covers all of the basics. As an introduction...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Food Webs
Rhinozilla is back to take your lesson plan on trophic levels a step higher! After showing the video on food chains (available through the See All Related Jams button), add to it by showing this one. It deals with omnivores and food...
Education Development Center
What's Cooking? Photosynthesis
Who would expect to learn about photosynthesis during a cooking demonstration? That is exactly what happens when you view this film, one of the best photosynthesis videos you will find! Because the lesson is deliciously delivered through...
PBS
Photosynthesis | UNC-TV Science
Discover what links photosynthesis and food chains together. Scientists explore the basics of photosynthesis, including its products, during an animated activity. While watching the video, investigators also learn the importance of sugar...
Amoeba Sisters
Ecological Relationships
What are ecological relationships? Well, it can be complicated! Paint a clear picture for pupils with a fun and informative video. It explains and illustrates each relationship thoroughly, from pesky parasites to snuggly symbiotes.
Amoeba Sisters
Biomagnification and the Trouble with Toxins
Our relationship with toxins is, well, a little toxic. Explore how harmful substances work their way throughout the environment with a video from an expansive biology playlist. Topics include DDT and mercury, trophic levels, and water...
Crash Course
Producers
Everyone knows that films have producers, but not everyone knows exactly what a producer does. An informative video explains what an executive producer, line producer, senior producer do, who can end up with an honorary producer credit,...
Teacher's Pet
Energy Transfer in Trophic Levels
Learn more about food chains, the food web, and the concepts relating to them. It focuses on consumers, producers, decomposers, energy transfer, and energy loss across trophic levels.
Crash Course
Ecosystem Ecology: Links in the Chain
A video starts by defining an ecosystem. It expands on the concept by covering trophic structure, primary producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, detrivores, and bioaccumulation.
Amoeba Sisters
Biomagnification and the Infamous DDT
People once recommended that you should wear a mask when spraying DDT onto the skin of the food you would later eat. The video explains biomagnification and the impact that giving toxins to producers has on the largest consumers. It uses...
Amoeba Sisters
Plant Structure and Adaptations
Non-vascular plants, like moss, are able to survive on photosynthesis. A video explains plant structure for both vascular and non-vascular plants. It includes the parts of each plant and adaptations to various environments such as...
Amoeba Sisters
Food Webs and Energy Pyramids: Bedrocks of Biodiversity
How come we don't eat worms, but we eat fish that eat worms? A video features the food chain and explains why a food web is a better explanation for biodiversity. It includes explanations of producers, autotrophs, consumers,...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Food Chains
Rhinozilla is Mia's bearded dragon and the focus of this lesson on energy flow in an ecosystem. She uses him to explain the energy pyramid, from producers through third level consumers, and she likens the food chain to a video game. Mia...
Crash Course
Crash Course Film Production #6: Producers
What do Producers even do? It's a hard question to answer because there are so many different kinds of producers on a movie. In this episode of Crash Course Film Production, Lily Gladstone talks us through the different kinds of...
NOAA
Noaa: Estuary Education: Phytoplankton
Young students learn about plankton (in particular phytoplankton) and why it is vital to life on this planet. [9:59]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Explains how energy flows in ecosystems. Energy enters via producers through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Producers and consumers release the energy from food through cellular respiration. An explanation of gross primary...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ecology: Flow of Energy and Matter Through Ecosystems
Seeing how energy and matter flows and is recycled from primary producers (autotrophs) to primary, secondary and tertiary consumers. [10:25]
PBS
Pbs: Commodity Markets: Managing Risk With Cash Markets and Forward Contracting
Learn about the two methods that are commonly used by farmers and ranchers to market commodities and manage risk
PBS
Pbs: How Are Commodity Markets Regulated?
Learn how commodity markets are regulated by watching this video. [2:30]